1969-094B (#20339) Molniya 3-36 RB 2 SpaceCom has evidently problems with this object. As Alan already mentioned yesterday SpaceCom had predicting the decay for June 29, 09:56 UTC +/- 01 day but it had also flagged its latest Decay prediction message als FINAL REPORT and the OIG ELSETs shows the header "Decayed 200/06/27". At this time we see frequently fresh ELSETs for this object, some are very strange : Epoch ndot Mean motion 000177.0017... 0.9033... 7.3573.... 000179.2536... 0.1985... 8.6948.... 000179.7342... 0.4608... 14.2541.... 000180.5870... 0.5363... 10.0868.... 000180.9413... -0.00000025 9.9876.... 000181.2500... 0.1438... 9.8928.... 000181.5989... 0.9110... 11.4742.... 000181.6857... 0.7990... 11.6321.... 000181.7328... 0.0941... 11.6589.... A part of an explanation could be the possibility that the ELSETs represent two (or three) different objects. In the past we have a few well documented cases of catastrophic breakups of the Molniya rocket bodies near the last perigees with a rapid decay of one piece and an uplift of the other. My rough analysis shows the possible "explosive event" on June 27, 14:40 UTC +/- 100 minutes MPM delivers for the decay of "piece 1" 27 June, 19:57 UTC +/- 90 minutes. I will follow the problem a little bit more in detail.... Harro Harro.Zimmer@t-online.de Berlin, Germany ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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